Marina Cavazza

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Oksana, Ukraine

Historian, academic
Italian husband
Mother of a 3-year-old boy
 
“Back in Ukraine I studied International Relations and first came to Geneva for internships at the Ukrainian mission to the UN. I continued with my Master’s and then the PhD and met my husband in Geneva. It has been 14 years now. One needs to be embedded in the local culture to have a sense of home because the feeling that you don’t belong anywhere doesn’t help in life. My children’s home is here. For me Geneva cannot be home entirely because part of my heart is somewhere else and it’s normal for people who migrate and leave their own countries. I will always have this complex identity, which integrates some new local features and keeps some of the old.”

Geneva, May 2015

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Oksana, Ukraine<br /> <br /> Historian, academic<br /> Italian husband<br /> Mother of a 3-year-old boy<br />  <br /> “Back in Ukraine I studied International Relations and first came to Geneva for internships at the Ukrainian mission to the UN. I continued with my Master’s and then the PhD and met my husband in Geneva. It has been 14 years now. One needs to be embedded in the local culture to have a sense of home because the feeling that you don’t belong anywhere doesn’t help in life. My children’s home is here. For me Geneva cannot be home entirely because part of my heart is somewhere else and it’s normal for people who migrate and leave their own countries. I will always have this complex identity, which integrates some new local features and keeps some of the old.”<br /> <br /> Geneva, May 2015